Word: aloftness
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...every supplicant, however, has gone to Washington and come away with bundles of cash. The Government turned down Pan American World Airways in 1974 when the carrier said it needed about $10 million a month in subsidies to stay aloft. Instead, the Civil Aeronautics Board allowed Pan Am to take rescue measures, such as sharing markets with...
...Cuba's "landmark" was President Fidel Castro, who obligingly posed with the island's superheavyweight boxer, Teófilo Stevenson. Afterward, when Leifer asked Castro to autograph a picture from an earlier session, the President's arm was so sore from holding Stevenson's hand aloft in a victory salute that he could barely write. The arm was not too sore, however, to offer Leifer a light for his Cohiba Cuban cigar in the souvenir photo above...
Transpace Carriers, a two-year-old Maryland firm that plans to use NASA rockets to put satellites aloft, accused Arianespace, its European rival, of using government subsidies to submit low-cost bids for American contracts. Transpace wants the French firm to charge the same price for U.S. launches as it does for European ones. Among the jobs Arianespace has won is a $125 million award to launch five General Telephone & Electric orbiters...
Nonetheless, CAN is able to assist only 20% to 30% of all the cancer victims who request trips. Blum hopes eventually to expand the service to include almost all of the 15,700 American corporate aircraft now aloft...
During a question and answer period, an alumnus holding aloft his official white 25th reunion beach hat urged his classmates not to wear the hats because they are manufactured in Capetown, South Africa...